Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.3.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.3.0.

Highlights from this release include:

• Eclipse Kepler Release updates (including Mylyn, EGit, m2e, m2e-wtp)
• updated bundled tc Server to 2.9.2 and bundled Spring Roo to 1.2.4
• ready for Spring 4
• support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects (including navigation support for @Autowired)
• new and unified "New Spring Project" wizard
• additional performance improvements for working with Spring projects
• brand new instant and lightning fast quick search for your workspace
• GGTS now includes grails 2.2.3

We continue to ship distributions on top of the latest Eclipse release (Eclipse Kelper 4.3) as well as Eclipse Juno 3.8. While the 3.8-based version ships with all the components from Eclipse Juno, only the 4.3-based version ships on top of the just released Eclipse Kepler 4.3 version and is therefore the only distribution that comes with all the latest fixes and…

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the 1.1.0.M3 release of Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter. At the same time, I'm also pleased to include Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.0.RC2 along with these releases.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

In these four releases, you'll find several improvements and new features, including:

• New ReconnectFilter to automatically handle invalid/expired connections and attempt to reestablish a new connection.
• Support for OAuth 2's 'state' parameter to prevent CSRF attacks.
• Support for non-standard, provider-specific parameters during provider sign-in.
• Several API updates in the API bindings for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
• Initial support for Twitter's streaming API.
• Support for application-only Twitter authorization.

In addition, several bugs were fixed. See the changelog (Core|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn) for details.

To get the software, download the release distribution (Core|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn) or change the dependencies in your build file to reference version 1.1.0.M3 (or 1.0.0.RC2 for Spring Social LinkedIn).

These releases represent a step toward a Spring Social 1.1.0 release later this year. We have planned one more milestone release of Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter that will include a few more small improvements and features.

We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Data Redis 1.1!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Highlights include:

• Support for several new Redis 2.6 commands and options
• Support for Redis 2.6 scripting
• Connection pool enhancements

There is also a new GA release, Spring Data Redis 1.0.5!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Spring Data Redis 1.0.5 is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. See the Changelog for more information.

For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Java Configuration as a stand alone module. The milestone is compatible with Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE+ and Spring Security 3.1.4.RELEASE.

This code has been merged into Spring Security 3.2.0.M2 release and will be maintained within the Spring Security code base going forward. We hope that by making the release available for stable versions of Spring and Spring Security it will encourage you to try it sooner and provide us feedback before the final release.

Stay tuned to the SpringSource blog for an article that walks you through how to use Spring Security Java Configuration. In the mean time, you can find out how to obtain spring-security-javaconfig, documentation, and samples at http://github.com/SpringSource/spring-security-javaconfig…

The release candidate for the upcoming Spring-AMQP 1.2.0 release for Java is now available.

See the release notes for more information.

This release includes a few additional improvements and features over and above those in the previous milestone.

See the project page for links to downloads and documentation.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3.RELEASE.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

Spring Social Facebook 1.0.3.RELEASE is made available to address breaking changes forthcoming in Facebook's Graph API to be applied on July 10, 2013. Specifically, the following breaking changes have been addressed:

• The removal of the 'count' property in a list of comments.
• Deprecation of checkins via the /checkins resource. All checkins should be done as posts with a location now.
• Removal of the 'version' property for groups.
• The Graph API no longer returns images for photos with sizes larger than the original image size.

In addition, a handful of small improvements were made to Spring Social Facebook's API binding. See the changelog for details.

To get the software, download the release distribution or change the Spring Social Facebook dependency in your build file to reference 1.0.3.RELEASE.

Important: This release includes changes to enable Spring Social Facebook to work after the July 2013 Breaking Changes. In order for this version of Spring Social Facebook to work prior to July 10, 2013, you'll need to configure your application at Facebook to enable the July 2013 Breaking Changes. Within Facebook's application configuration, go to "Settings->Advanced" and click the "Enabled" radio button next to "July 2013 Breaking Changes".

We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social Facebook issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring XD is now available for download.

Spring XD makes it easy to solve common big data problems such as data ingestion and export, real-time analytics, and batch workflow orchestration. The first milestone implements many features and provides a sizable amount of documentation.

For more information, please see the Project Home Page, the Release Notes and the the blog posting.

We would love to hear your feedback as we continue working hard towards the final Spring XD 1.0.0 release. If you have any questions, please use Stackoverflow (Tag: springxd), and to report any bugs or improvements, please use either the Jira Issue Tracker or file a GitHub issue.

We are pleased to announce the availability of Spring Integration 2.2.4 and 2.1.6 maintenance releases.

Spring Integration's Twitter module uses Spring Social Twitter, which has been updated to version 1.0.5 in anticipation of the Twitter v1.0 API retirement. The Spring Social Twitter 1.0.4.RELEASE [1] and 1.0.5.RELEASE [2] announcements provide more information about the recent updates to that project. For anyone using Twitter search adapters, the underlying search API in v1.1 requires authorization, so you will need to update the configuration for any TwitterTemplate (if not already…